Quote: "Scientists have observed an 'unprecedented' event that could lead to an end of seasons as we know them, after Northern Hemisphere jet streams crossed the equator and linked with others in the south."

Note: So randomized seasons? Yeah, that'll be just great for growing food...

Quote: "Her neurologist, Dr Toby Yalto, has put her through a series of tests but has so far been unable to determine what has caused her to develop the condition, known as foreign accent syndrome. Less than 100 people worldwide have developed the condition in the last century..."

Note: That little mask the lady's wearing in the pic - that won't do squat against hydrogen sulfide. Only full-body HazMat suits that maintain positive air pressure and which are connected to a known safe air supply (or which carry their own air supply) are effective, the same suits they use when working with super-deadly biohazard viruses...

Note: Heh, haven't spent much time on this. Unprecedented or not, it's clearly unusual and bad, so I don't see much point in arguing about its unprecedentedness or lack of unprecedentedness. Get too bogged down in details and semantics and you'll miss the end of the world!

Quote: "In the afternoon of July 4, 2016, a man aboard the 'First Lady' suffered a cardiac arrest off Port d'Andratx. He also had signs of circulatory arrest, and the crew of the yacht issued a distress call, which was received by the cruise ship 'Harmony of the Seas'. The operator immediately informed the emergency services, which in turn requested a helicopter which medevaced the man in the 40ies."

Quote: "The undertaking is just one of numerous projects aimed at to growing fruits and vegetables in the most unusual, even unnatural, environments to fuel manned journeys into the depths of Earth and space. As the military tries to perfect hydroponics in submarines, leafy greens and other vegetables are being grown in space and in the ocean in desalinated water."

Quote: "The Coast Guard, along with Chatham County Rescue Services, medevac a man who was vomiting blood two-miles east of Simon Island late Saturday. A Coast Guard Air Station Savannah MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew medevac’d a 41-year-old man after their 18-ft vessel became disabled."

Quote: "According to a witness a boat, without a driver, had crashed into a boat dock. Authorities believe that the driver of the boat, a 56-year-old Iowa resident, was out fishing and fell into the water sometime prior to the accident."

Quote: "Originally thought to have disappeared with the arrival of El Niño scientists now believe it instead retreated deeper into the ocean and now hovers about 500 to 650 feet below the surface. 'The residual effect of the blob is still there' Ian Perry, a senior research scientist with Fisheries and Oceans Canada, told CBC."

Quote: "China's self-designed deep-sea exploration vessel 'Ocean No.6' sets sail from a port in Guangzhou, capital of south China's Guangdong Province, July 8, 2016. The vessel will spend 282 days conducting deep-sea surveys and a scientific expedition in Antarctica on a nearly 60,000-km voyage. It will return to the port in Guangzhou in April, 2017. The Chinese research vessel Haiyang Liuhao, also known as Ocean No. 6, set sail on Friday to the Pacific Ocean and Antarctica for a 60,000-km expedition."

Quote: "This is the chilling moment 22 schoolgirls - aged between 12 and 15 - 'suffered mass demonic possession' after playing a game of 'Charlie Charlie'. The children were screaming, writhing and hallucinating - and some were even foaming at the mouth."

Note: Yeah, mass demonic possession or a neurotoxic poison. I wonder which is more likely...

Quote: "Researchers have identified a hidden fault beneath Bangladesh and parts of east India and Myanmar. New GPS data indicates a megaquake — an earthquake with a magnitude 8.2 to 9.0 — could strike the region. An earthquake that strong would be incredibly devastating. According to Live Science, 'researchers estimate about 140 million people live within 60 miles of the fault.'"

Quote: "California’s Central Valley has three times more freshwater in underground aquifers than previously thought, drinking water that could help the state weather future drought and fortify itself against a changing climate, according to a new Stanford University study. But tapping that water, locked thousands of feet beneath the ground, will be expensive and comes with an enormous risk — it could cause the valley floor to sink, according to the study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Sinking land in the Central Valley is threatening roads, homes and other infrastructure, and reduces the amount of water some aquifers can hold."

Quote: "Coast Guard 17th District command center watchstanders received a medevac request from the captain for a 57-year-old man reportedly suffering from stroke-like symptoms. The duty flight surgeon was consulted and recommended the medevac."

Note: Seems highly unlikely that drugs would cause 33 people in the same area and at the same time, all outdoors and near the coast, to experience these symptoms. This event looks very similar to the 22 school girls who just hallucinated and twitched and foamed at the mouth in Colombia, mentioned in the 2016-07-11 update. I guess we'll have to wait the standard 'several weeks' for toxicology results for all of these people, assuming they do such tests (very unlikely), and even then we'd have to believe what we're told by the very people who are hiding the truth, which obviously wouldn't be too wise...

Quote: "On July 14, 2016, at 07.50 a.m. the CROSS Gris Nez was altered by the 'Happy Bear' after one of the crew members had fallen ill. The ship was then off Calais. Immediately, the CROSS Gris Nez, on the advice of maritime medical coordination in Le, Havre, advised a medical evacuation."

Quote: "From January to June of this year, the statewide average temperature was 30.4 degrees Fahrenheit, which was 9 degrees above average. This beat the previous record by 2.5 degrees Fahrenheit, an unusually large margin for such a record to be broken by."

Quote: "Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told the nation Saturday that his government was working to crush a coup attempt after a night of explosions, air battles and gunfire across the capital that left at least 17 dead and scores wounded."

Quote: "A new paper just published by scientists in Geophysical Research Letters presents results of their investigation into the ice sheet covering Greenland. They found that over the four-year period from Jan. 1, 2011 to Dec. 31, 2014 Greenland lost over a trillion tons of ice. Let me repeat that: More than a trillion tons of ice melted away from Greenland."

Quote: "On July 18, 2016, a Coast Guard helicopter crew medevaced a 74-year-old man who was unconscious and revived by the crew of the 'Carnival Breeze' 379 miles southwest of St. Petersburg. Watchstanders with the 7th Coast Guard District Command Center received a call around 3:20 p.m. stating a passenger was unconscious and revived by a cruise ship medical staff member."

Quote: "The first six months of 2016 were the hottest ever recorded, NASA announced on Tuesday, while Arctic sea ice now covers 40% less of the Earth than it did just 30 years ago."

Note: That radically shrinking ice cover is why a cruise ship is preparing for a trip through the Northwest Passage this year, the first time that has ever been possible since mankind invented ships...

Quote: "This extraordinary sight - in a video filmed of the tundra on remote Belyy Island in the Kara Sea off the Yamal Peninsula coastline - was witnessed by a scientific research expedition. Researchers Alexander Sokolov and Dorothee Ehrich spotted 15 patches of trembling or bubbling grass-covered ground. When punctured they emitted methane and carbon dioxide, according to measurements, although so far no details have been given. The reason is as yet unclear, but one possible explanation of the phenomenon is abnormal heat that caused permafrost to thaw, releasing gases."

Quote: "An earthquake shook parts of North Carolina near the Virginia border in Wilkes County on Saturday night. The 2.4 magnitude quake hit around 9:50 p.m. and was at a depth of 5.1 kilometers, according to the US Geological Survey. The quake on Saturday night happened just two days after 1.9 magnitude earthquake struck Thursday at Plumtree, N.C. in Avery County — about 60 miles west-southwest of the Saturday quake."

Quote: "The Sakurajima volcano in southwestern Japan had an explosive eruption early Tuesday, spewing volcanic ash 5,000 meters into the sky, the Meteorological Agency said. It is the first eruption projecting to such an altitude since August 2013 for the volcano within kilometers of downtown Kagoshima, a city of 606,000 and major shipping port in southwestern Japan."

Quote: "An entire forecast map awash in the red and orange colors of unusually warm temperatures for a 3-month period is unprecedented, according to Dan Collins, a meteorologist with the prediction center."

Quote: "One Small Part of Antarctica Stayed Cool While the Rest Warmed: Perhaps the most frustrating aspect of climate change denialism is the willful idiocy of using local exceptions to a widely supported trend as evidence that trend is false."

Quote: "The Seekonk fire chief said 18 people fell ill while dining Friday morning at the Panera Bread restaurant on Highland Avenue. It's believed air quality made people sick, not food. Fire Chief Michael Healy told NBC 10 News that the affected customers complained about a tingling sensation in their throat, skin irritation and difficulty breathing."

Quote: "For one thing, the lake has been warming faster than ever recorded. In 2015 the lake's average temperature rose 0.48 degrees Fahrenheit - and over the last four years, the rise was 15 times faster than the lake's historic warming rate."

Quote: "The Southwest District Health Department says that the toxic bacteria was found in Lake Lowell at the Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge, the Snake River in Hells Canyon, and in Brownlee Reservoir in Washington County."

Quote: "Heavy rains in Fort McMurray, Alta., have caused flooded streets and knocked out traffic lights, forcing the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo to activate its emergency operations centre for the first time since parts of the city were devastated by a wildfire in May."